When Wang Yue launched the Nanyang Raid, the situation in the Central Plains was relatively calm.

At this moment, Zhang Xianzhong is still serving as a county magistrate in Gucheng, but he is not at ease. Xiong Wencan is a fool, worried that Zhang Xianzhong will rebel again, and he accepts bribes from him, so he takes care of him very much.

Zhang Xianzhong took the opportunity to ask for benefits, and Xiong Wencan tried his best to satisfy him. On the one hand, it was allocated land for shelter, and on the other hand, 20,000 horses were paid silver, and the rest were repatriated to their hometowns. Zhang Xianzhong did not do it, and asked for a salary of 100,000 people.

At this time, even a fool knows that this thing is not well-intentioned. But Xiong Wencan just can't compare to a fool, obviously Zhang Xianzhong is training and building ordnance in Gucheng, Zuo Liangyu asked to send troops to fight Zhang Xianzhong, Xiong Wencan actually said: "Although Xianzhong is rebellious, the provocation has not yet been completed. ”

In this way, Xiong Wencan went farther and farther on the road of death, at this time, due to the strength of the official army, Zhang Xianzhong was quite honest. did not play the banner of rebellion, and was still serving as a county magistrate in Gucheng.

In the winter of October, the governor Hong Chengchou broke his own in the southern plains of Tongguan. After the defeat of Taozhou, in addition to the six teams that became their own relatives, Xing Red Wolf, Shangtianlong, and Scorpion Block successively descended to Ming. Cheng Chou Du will run to Tongguan, and Sun Chuanting set up a plan, set up three in the south of Tongguan, set up a battalion every fifty miles, and make the chief soldier Cao Bianjiao chase after him. Since the formation of the army to the southern plain of Tongguan, it has risen up, the army has been defeated, and there have been countless casualties. Zicheng was seriously injured, his wife, daughter, and baggage were lost, and he only broke through with Liu Zongmin and other eighteen horsemen, and hid in Shang and Luoshan.

After this war, Li Zicheng's rebellion entered the lowest stage.

On October 16, the 11th year of Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng was shocked to learn that his father died of illness on the way back to his hometown in Yixing. After repeatedly refusing, Chongzhen had to allow him to go home for the funeral.

On the second day of the first day of November, within more than ten miles of the capital, the earth's axis was shaken, like an earthquake.

Soon, there was a thunderclap in the middle of the sky, the roof tiles were shattered, the beams were dusty, and the white clouds in the northwest corner were gloomy, filling the sky, with pale yellow sunspots in the middle, and the clouds were swirling. After two hours, it dispersed.

It is the gunpowder explosion of the Anmin factory in the Xizhi Gate of the capital, which destroyed the city wall, and there is no end in a radius of more than ten miles, and the trees are all standing up. People live in pedestrians, pillow each other, and death is charred and black. Some collapsed for miles outside the city, and died on the ground.

According to the investigation, more than 10,000 residents were killed and injured, Wang Fu, the eunuch of the pasting factory, and Zhang Zhixiu, the bureau official, were killed, the arsenal was almost empty, and 5,000 gold relief shirts were issued.

Since the explosion of Wang Gongchang in the Apocalypse, there was a major accident caused by poor management of gunpowder in the capital, and most of the gunpowder piled up here was used by the new army, which shows how nonsense the officials of the Ming Dynasty did. Such a dangerous thing cannot be overly careful when producing. If this kind of thing can happen, it must be a man-made disaster.

Chongzhen felt that Lu Xiangsheng was still reliable, and immediately issued a holy decree, ordering him to take away his affection, and Lu Xiangsheng arrived home a few days ago. Can't keep filial piety at home, Lu Xiangsheng is very sad in his heart, but the country is eventful, he can only endure the grief in his heart and continue to serve the country.

To say that the biggest movement at the moment is Liaodong, since the Tiance army took the Lushun Peninsula, gradually advanced to the north, and is currently staying on the front line of Fuzhou, digesting the results, building bridges and paving roads, and hoarding supplies.

The chrysanthemum was exploded, and Huang Taiji was unwilling, and launched many tentative attacks without success, but lost his troops. The Qing army facing the Tiance army is almost a copy of the Ming army facing the Qing army, of course, weaker than that.

At this time, someone proposed to take Gaizhou as the boundary, dig deep ditches, and build forts to hinder the offensive of the Tiance army, and Huang Taiji adopted it.

After the reconnaissance of the Tiance Army Air Force, the Qing army built a large number of troops and more than 200,000 people near Gaizhou, gathered 100,000 troops and more than 200,000 people, dug five deep ditches in less than ten days, and built thousands of earthen forts, which were built with rammed earth, similar to large earth nests.

The Third Brigade of the Tiance Army stationed on the Liaodong Peninsula and the security forces immediately carried out sabotage and harassment operations against the Qing army's project, and bulldozers, tanks, and armored vehicles went into battle at the same time, destroying the Qing army's construction achievements and killing thousands of enemies in three or four days.

After Wang Yue received the report on the war situation, he stopped the sabotage and harassment operations of the Third Brigade. The Fuzhou line controlled by the Tiance army was more than 80 kilometers away from the construction site of the Qing army, and the Qing army had placed a lot of reconnaissance cavalry in this buffer zone, so when the Tiance army arrived at the construction site, they could not kill or wound too many enemies, because they had already dispersed in a hurry.

It is impossible for the trench earthen fort to block the attack of the Tiance army, and it is not cost-effective to spend a large amount of fuel reserves for these unrealistic obstacles, Wang Yue only hopes that Huang Taiji will stay in Shenyang honestly, and don't go into the mountains to become a savage.

The Tiance army retreated and did not come for a long time, Huang Taiji was overjoyed, and the digging of the ditch and the repair of the fort were finally able to continue. Can these things stop the Tiance Army? The war in Pyongyang proved that this was not the case. But Huang Taiji was not discouraged, he had already learned the lessons of the battle of Pyongyang, and after the supplementary advice of the great traitor Kong Youde, these deep ditch earth forts were added, and he wanted to make the Gaizhou defense line the tomb of the Tiance army.

However, Huang Taiji's peace of mind digging ditch was a bubble after all, and a few days later, the Tiance army came back, this time not playing demolition, but playing with artillery bombardment. The Fifth Brigade of the Tiance Army and the security forces used those earthen forts as targets for artillery training, and bombed the construction sites of the Qing army.

Therefore, the Qing army construction site at the front of Gaizhou presented a strange scene, you hit your artillery, and I dug my ditch without interfering with each other.

On January 4, 1639, Wang Yue left Wanghai City on a dock landing ship, and the first stop was to reach Taipei. The main fleet of the Tiance Navy and the Fifth Brigade will also return north, and the First Regiment of the Fourth Brigade and the Nanyang Detachment will be temporarily stationed in Wanghai City and Singapore.

Prisoners of the Jose Combined Fleet have been taken to various road construction sites and the Keelung Coal Mine, where they will face 20 years of hard labor as war criminals.

After digging coal in the Keelung coal mine for more than a month, Zheng Lian, who had become a black man, finally waited for Wang Yue's interrogation.

"He's Zheng Lian?" Looking at the person in front of him who only had clean eyes, Wang Yue couldn't recognize Zheng Lian who had dealt with him at all.

"Lord Shaobao, he is Zheng Lian, because he was in too much of a hurry, so he didn't have time to wash him." Luo Kaiyuan's former subordinate, Huang San, the current captain of the Taiwan prisoner of war camp, accompanied him carefully, and secretly scolded his subordinates for being blind.

Wang Yue waved his hand and said, "Go, take him to clean it." ”